21Then Joab said to the Cushite, |Go, tell the king what you have seen!| The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.


In Context

18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, |I have no son to keep my name in memory.| He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.

19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, |Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.|

20 Joab said to him, |You shall not be the bearer of news this day, but you shall bear news another day. But today you shall bear no news, because the king's son is dead.|

21 Then Joab said to the Cushite, |Go, tell the king what you have seen!| The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

22 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, |But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.| Joab said, |Why do you want to run, my son, since that you will have no reward for the news?|

23 |But come what may,| he said, |I will run.| He said to him, |Run!| Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.

2 Samuel 18:21 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:21Then Joab said to a Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:21And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast seen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And the Cushite bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And the Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And the Cushite bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to Cushi, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:21And Joab saith to Cushi, 'Go, declare to the king that which thou hast seen;' and Cushi boweth himself to Joab, and runneth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:21Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what you have seen. And Cushi bowed himself to Joab, and ran.